Quadratic Forms, Linear Algebraic Groups, and Cohomology (Developments in Mathematics, 18)

Surveys.- Multiples of forms.- On Saltman’s p-Adic Curves Papers.- Serre’s Conjecture II: A Survey.- Field Patching, Factorization, and Local-Global Principles.- Deformation Theory and Rational Points on Rationally Connected Varieties.- Recent Progress on the Kato Conjecture.- Elliptic Curves and Iwasawa’s µ = 0 Conjecture.- Cohomological Invariants of Central Simple Algebras with Involution.- Witt Groups of Varieties and the Purity Problem.- Invited articles.- Some Extensions and Applications of the Eisenstein Irreducibility Criterion.- On the Kernel of the Rost Invariant for E8 Modulo 3.- Une version du théorème d’Amer et Brumer pour les zéro-cycles.- Quaternion Algebras with the Same Subfields.- Lifting of Coefficients for Chow Motives of Quadrics.- Upper Motives of Outer Algebraic Groups.- Triality and étale algebras.- Remarks on Unimodular Rows.- Vector Bundles Generated by Sections and Morphisms to Grassmannians.- Adams Operations and the Brown-Gersten-Quillen Spectral Sequence.- Non-self-dual Stably Free Modules.- Homotopy Invariance of the Sheaf WNis and of Its Cohomology.- Imbedding Quasi-split Groups in Isotropic Groups.